CHICAGO – Gun safety, mental illness and affordable housing were the key topics during a community action meeting Sunday afternoon at “House of Hope” on the South Side.
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Sun, 07/17/2022 : WGN
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Wed, 07/13/2022 : Crain's Chicago Business
After being told nothing can be done about gun violence, we have learned to be helpless. A group of community leaders explains how to break the cycle.
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Fri, 10/22/2021 : Washington Post
For decades, North Lawndale has been slipping into weedy neglect.In 1966, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. moved his wife and four children into a dilapidated apartment here to highlight housing inequalities in Northern cities.
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Mon, 06/28/2021 : ABC7 Chicago
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Housing announced the Reclaiming Communities Campaign in North Lawndale Monday morning.
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Mon, 06/28/2021 : Block Club Chicago
NORTH LAWNDALE — The city announced Monday it’s selling 250 vacant West Side lots to a community-led campaign that plans to build affordable homes with the help of city, state and private investment.
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Mon, 06/28/2021 : Crain's Chicago Business
Chicago will sell vacant lots for $1 each to a joint venture that will build 250 single-family homes in the West Side neighborhood.
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Mon, 06/28/2021 : WGN
CHICAGO — The City of Chicago is looking to cut crime by increasing home ownership, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a new program Monday aimed at doing just that.
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Mon, 06/21/2021 : WBEZ
Hundreds of long-vacant lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neightborhood could soon have new affordable, single-family homes built on them.
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Mon, 09/23/2019 : ABC7 Chicago
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hundreds of people gathered on Chicago's West Side to talk with Mayor Lori Lightfoot about the city's most pressing problems, from gun violence to housing concerns.
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Thu, 09/12/2019 : Crain's Chicago Business
The presence of hardworking homeowners and renters will do what no policing strategy or service program can ever do: Create a new majority of peace-loving neighbors who will enforce different standards of behavior where chaos has held sway for so long.
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Wed, 09/11/2019 : Chicago Sun Times
She has a chance to help reduce gun-related suicides, accidental shootings and the violence caused by stolen guns.
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Fri, 09/02/2016 : The State Journal-Register
We were heartened to see Gov. Bruce Rauner push forward changes in the flawed criminal justice system in Illinois. That system rounded up and locked up of a generation of young offenders, however minor the offense, and then locked them out of jobs and opportunities once they were free.
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Tue, 10/27/2015 : WGN TV
President Obama will travel to Chicago Tuesday to address a meeting of police chiefs from around the world and he's expected to call for stricter national gun laws.
White House aides say the president will address the international association of chiefs of police and he's well aware of the overwhelming problem of gun violence in the city.
He plans to address that and the broader topic of violence and how police can work more effectively to deal with it in their communities.
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Mon, 10/26/2015 : WGCI 107.5
Dr. Moss talks Gun Crime Dealers and Solutions to Take Guns Off the Streets with the Chicago Morning Takeover.
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Mon, 10/26/2015 : NBC Chicago
After 66 people were arrested during a protest on the first day of an impressive gathering of police chiefs in Chicago, the demonstrations continued Monday as the conference proceeded.
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Mon, 10/26/2015 : ABC7 Chicago
More than 14,000 law enforcement officials from around the country are in Chicago on Monday for the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, which has drawn protesters all weekend.
The conference, which is being held at the McCormick Place, aims to showcase different crime-fighting tools to fight violence. It is the largest conference of its kind.
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Mon, 10/26/2015 : WBEZ 91.5FM
Listen to news piece about United Power for Action and Justice.
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Tue, 10/06/2015 : The State Journal-Register
One of the many sayings of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley went something like this: "It is easy to criticize, to find fault. But where are your programs? Where are your ideas?"
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Tue, 01/21/2014 : OakPark.com
Gov. Quinn paid a visit to Ascension Church Sunday afternoon for a United Power for Action and Justice (UPAJ) meeting that packed the church with more than 800 people. Ascension hasn't been that full since Midnight Mass, which, as it happens, was the last time Quinn visited Ascension, so he's used to standing room only in church.
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Sun, 09/01/2013 : Chicago Sun-Times
My friend Lori Puerschner is the face I see. And the voice I hear on this so-called holiday. Because she, at 59, hasn’t had more than a week’s vacation in any given year for the last 30 years. There is no time off when all your time is spent looking for work. Or working wherever you can, whenever you can.
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